concentration may bring about Samadhi. This is to be feared and 
shunned, more than any other breaking of control, for that it is the 
most tremenclous of the forces which threaten to obsess. There 
is also some danger of acute délirions melancholia at point I.) 
III 
sss 
“Thou art a beautiful thing, whiter than a woman in the column 
of this vibration. 
“I shoot up vertically like an arrow, and become that Above. 
“But it is death, and the flame of the pyre. 
“Ascend in the flame of the pyre, O my Soûl ! 
“Thy God is like the cold emptiness of the utmost heaven, into 
which thou radiatest thy little light. 
“When Thou shalt know me, O empty God, my flame shall 
utterly expire in thy great N.O.X.” Liber Lapidis Lazuli. i. 36- 
40. 
o. Be seated in thine Asana, preferably the Thunderbolt. 
It is essential that the spine be vertical. 
1. In this practice the cavity of the brain is the Yonij the 
spinal cord is the Lingam. 
2. Concentrate thy thought of adoration in the brain. 
3. Now begin to awaken the spine in this manner. Concen¬ 
trate thy thought of thyself in the base of the spine, and move it 
gradually up a little at a time. 
By this means thou wilt become conscious of the spine, feeling 
each vertebra as a separate entity. This must be achieved most fully 
and perfectly before the further practice is begun. 
4. Next, adore the brain as before, but figure to thyself its 
content as infinité. Deem it to be the womb of Isis, or the body 
of Nuit. 
5. Next, identify thyself with the base of the spine as before, 
but figure to thyself its energy as infinité. Deem it to be the 
phallus of Osiris or the being of Hadit. 
6. These two concentrations 4 and 5 may be pushed to the 
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